Akron
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Brown Announces More Than $5 Million To Strengthen Health Education And Workforce Development In Rural And Underserved Ohio Communities
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that Ohio institutions have been awarded a five-year grant totaling $5,245,899 to strengthen the state’s Area Health Education Centers (AHECs) and improve health education and workforce development for rural and underserved communities. Th...…Read More
Posted on 10/1/2012 | -
Brown Announces New Federal Grant for City of Akron to Hire Recently-Returned Military Veterans
The City of Akron will receive new federal funds from the U.S. Department of Justice to hire recently-returned military veterans through the new “Vets to COPS” program. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that Akron will receive $1,500,000 through the COPS Hiring Program (CH...…Read More
Posted on 6/25/2012 | -
Brown Announces $13 Million Grant For Nationwide, Akron Children’s Hospitals To Provide Health Services To 500,000 Ohio Children
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus and Akron Children’s Hospital will receive new federal resources to expand a health care program that will serve more than a half million Ohio children. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) urged the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...…Read More
Posted on 6/15/2012 | -
Brown Office Representatives Meet With Honor Flight Veterans From Akron-Canton Area
WASHINGTON, D.C.- On Saturday, representatives from the office of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) met with veterans from the Akron-Canton area in s part of the Honor Flight program. Approximately 116 veterans traveled from Northeast Ohio to visit the World War II, Vietnam, and Korean War memo...…Read More
Posted on 5/21/2012 | -
Brown Salutes Akron Veteran Whose Name Was Added To The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
The names of ten American servicemembers, including a veteran from Akron, were engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial earlier this month, part of several changes that will be unveiled at a ceremony at the Memorial this Sunday in Washington. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will send ...…Read More
Posted on 5/11/2012 | -
Brown Congratulates Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank For Earning National Award
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown today commended the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank on being named “2012 Member of the Year” by the Feeding America network of foodbanks. More than 200 foodbanks are members of the Feeding America network, and the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank received th...…Read More
Posted on 4/19/2012 | -
In Advance Of Tax Day, Brown Alerts Ohio Taxpayers To Rising Rate Of Tax Refund Fraud Through Identity Theft
CLEVELAND, OH- Identity theft by criminals fraudulently obtaining tax returns is turning into an epidemic, with more than two million suspected fraudulent tax returns currently under review by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today joined Michael Bucalo, of Akron, whose ident...…Read More
Posted on 4/11/2012 |